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NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and UBS Investment Bank announced the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity IndexSM that will become effective in early January 2011. The new target weights for the commodity components, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Supervisory Committee following consultation with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Advisory Committee, are listed below.

The target weights are determined in accordance with construction rules described in the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Handbook, which is available for download at www.djindexes.com . These rules generally combine liquidity and production data in a 2:1 ratio, subject to further requirements as to diversification and minimum weightings. The resulting weights will be used to determine the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Multipliers for 2011. These multipliers, computed once a year in January are factors used to express the percentage weights in U.S. dollar-denominated terms when calculating the Index.

For comparison the target weights for 2010 were as follows:

Launched in 1998, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity index family includes nine sector sub-indexes, multiple forward month indexes, indexes for each individual commodity in the original DJ-UBSCI, Euro-, Yen-, Sterling-, and Swiss Franc-denominated versions of the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index, and the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Spot Index. Also available are total return versions of each of the excess return indexes and sub-indexes. As of the end of the second quarter of 2010, an estimated $59.2 billion tracked the DJ-UBSCI group of indexes.

UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in over 50 countries, with about 37% of its employees working in the Americas, 37% in Switzerland, 16% in the rest of Europe and 10% in Asia Pacific. UBS employs about 65,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

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